The Legal Aspects of Expedited Partner Therapy Practice: Do Laws Really Matter?

Ryan Cramer, JD1, Jami Leichliter, PhD1, Mark Stenger, MA2, Lenore Asbel, MD3, Kyle Bernstein, PhD, ScM4, Margaret Eaglin, MPH, MUPP5, Tom Jaenicke, MPH6, Megan Jespersen, MPH7, Penny Loosier, PhD, MPH1, Mukhtar Mohamed, MPH, MA8, Preeti Pathela, DrPH, MPH9, Nancy Patrick-Dubose, MPH10, Mary Reed, MPH11, Lauren Slive1, Jeff Stover, MPH12 and Jonathan Zenilman, MD13, 1Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, 2DSTDP/Surveillance and Data Management Branch, CDC, Atlanta, GA, 3STD Control Program, Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, 4STD Prevention and Control Section, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA, 5HIV/STI Bureau, City of Chicago Department of Public Health, Chicago, IL, 6Infectious Disease & Reproductive Health Assessment Unit, Washington State Department of Health, Olympia, WA, 7STD/HIV program, Louisiana Office of Public Health, New Orleans, LA, 8STD Control Program, Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford, CT, 9Bureau of Sexually Transmitted Disease Control, New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, Long Island City, NY, 10Disease Control-TB/STD, Jefferson County Health Department, Birmingham, AL, 11Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment, Denver, CO, 12Health informatics & Integrated Surveillance Systems, Virginia Department of Health - Division of Disease Prevention, Richmond, VA, 13Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins Center for STI Research & Prevention, Baltimore, MD